Please ask me to be the emperor

In other words, after Li Baihu received orders from Zhang Shun, he made a lot of noise along the way since he left Luoyang City, preaching that "Henan Prefecture suffered a once-in-a-thousand-year drought. The land was cracked, the grass and trees were withered, the people exchanged their children for food, and the food was A grain counts for money.”

Everywhere he went, Li Baihu sent his subordinates to nearby grain stores to buy grain.

The grain buyer then asked, "What's the price of grain today?"

"One or two cents or one stone, no bargaining!" the grain shop owner responded coldly.

"Can you sell those ten taels of silver and one stone?"

"Ah? Yes! Yes! Yes! Of course I can." The grain store owner suspected that he had heard wrongly and quickly replied with regret.

"Didn't you say you won't negotiate the price?"

"Isn't it true that I've never met anyone who knows how to bargain like you?"

"Well, here's a stone! Don't give it to me as a shoddy stone, mixed with sand or dirt!"

"Don't worry, at this price, if you let me pick you one by one, I won't even say anything back!" The owner of the grain shop beamed, without his previous condescending attitude.

"If that's the case, then I'll be disrespectful and ask the boss to pick out the grains for me one by one. I want all the grains to be big and plump, and don't have any grains on them!" Grain buyers couldn't help but ask the donkey down the slope. road.

"Ah? My uncle, I was just joking, but you took it seriously!" The grain shop owner was dumbfounded.

"I'm joking too!" The food buyer patted the boss on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I'm in a hurry, even if you want to choose for me, I'm not willing to let you choose!"

Seeing that the grain buyer was talkative, the owner of the grain shop quickly asked in a low voice: "Master, what are you doing? Don't buy at a low price, but buy at a high price. Isn't that right?"

"Isn't he a fool?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare! I'm just curious and asked." How could the grain store owner dare to admit it?

"Well, I see that you are a kind-hearted person, so I will tell you the truth! This year Henan is in bad luck. First, it suffered a once-in-a-thousand-year disaster. People could fall into the cracks in the cultivated land. There is also the thief Shun. The king occupied Luoyang Mansion and seized tens of millions of King Fu's property. Then what do you think will happen to King Shun now that he has money but no food?"

Ouch, I'm familiar with this. The owner of the grain shop couldn't help but laugh and said: "What else can I do? Let's raise the price!"

"Here! You are an incredible boss. You can even guess the methods of a big man like King Shun." The grain buyer smiled mysteriously, "I saw it with my own eyes in Luoyang City a few days ago. King Shun for I paid a thousand taels for a bag of corn to make porridge!”

"Silver?" The grain store owner couldn't believe it.

"Gold!" The grain buyer looked like he was stupid and said with a smile: "There are twelve gold ingots, one hundred in total. They were all weighed and they were all real gold! Have you ever seen the boss make a fortune? ?”

"Huh?" The grain store owner's mouth was almost drooling.

"Do you know why I am so generous? I will reward you with the extra money. I am not short of money!" The grain buyer smiled and threw a bag of wheat onto the cart and said with a smile, "Just send my cart to In Luoyang City, if you have been able to eat and drink for a few lifetimes, why should you care about those few taels of stinky money?"

After saying this, the man loaded all the grain he had purchased into the car and drove away.

The grain store owner looked at the white piece of silver in his hand and suddenly felt that it didn't smell so good anymore.

However, he was also doubtful about this matter. He quickly ordered the waiter to close the shop temporarily and go to other people's homes for a walk.

It didn't matter that he was wandering around. The rest of the grain shops were either closing or changing their brands. There was written in black and white on it: Today's grain price is two liang and one stone, no two prices!

He couldn't help but sneakily ran over and asked: "Boss, wasn't it still one or two cents yesterday? Why has the price increased today?"

"Oh? Old money, won't your price increase? If your price doesn't increase, I will eat as much as you have!"

The mud horse was actually recognized. "Old Qian" quickly laughed and said: "How big is your belly? I'm not afraid of suffocating you to death!"

Immediately, "Old Qian" hurriedly returned to the grain team and ordered: "We are closed today. Guys, please quickly find more horse and cart bags with me and prepare to go to Luoyang City to sell grain!"

The guys were curious after hearing this and couldn't help asking: "Boss, we understand how to prepare the carriage and horses, but what are you preparing this bag for?"

"Go to Luoyang to pick up money!" the grain shop owner replied plausibly. It turned out that he had other things on his mind. Although Prince Nafu's palace is large, not all of it may be filled with gold and silver.

King Shun "doesn't feel bad if he sells his land." After losing all the gold and silver in a short time, he must have had to use copper coins and household items to make up for the loss. At that time, I had the foresight to prepare the cloth bags that would come in handy.

For a time, with Luoyang City as the center, it extended to Shanxi and Zhili in the north, Bianliang and Shandong in the east, Huguang and Huaiyang in the south, and Shaanxi and Gansu in the west. Everyone heard the name of King Shun.

Although there are different opinions, there are generally two points: first, King Fu fell, King Shun was full and got tens of millions of gold and silver; second, there was a severe drought in Henan that happened once in a thousand years, and there was no harvest, so he changed his son to eat. In order to survive, King Shun had to spend a lot of money to buy grain to maintain his life.

To be honest, anyone with a brain would not believe this rhetoric. However, people always like to believe what they want to believe. To put it simply, they like wishful thinking.

One pass spread to ten, and ten spread to hundreds. Suddenly, large and small carts of grain were loaded with food in more than a thousand miles around Luoyang, and they headed all the way to Luoyang City.

If seen from space, thousands of grain teams are like stars holding the moon, or moths flying toward the flame!

With an outward desire for a better life, a desire for gold and silver treasures, and a benevolent heart to help the people of Luoyang, they went straight to Luoyang through hardships and difficulties.

There were people traveling by boat, carts, people carrying people on their backs, horses and camels, and even old people and young children who even carried a small bag and traveled with them.

Not to mention the large-scale war within a thousand miles of Luoyang, Zhang Shun could not live in peace near Luoyang City.

He had already ordered Han Lin to take charge, and priest Gao Yizhi to assist him, and set up another small city outside Luoyang City.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, there are those who deliberately build Yuanyang City, and there are also those who depend on each other.

The most typical mandarin duck cities are Xiangyang and Fancheng. The two cities stand across the river and are connected by a pontoon bridge. Thinking back when Guan Erye was so powerful in China, there was nothing he could do about Cao Ren who was holding on to Fancheng. Not to mention, the Mongol Empire, which was once powerful for a while, besieged Xiangfan for six years before taking the city with great difficulty.

The city of Luoyang is so big that even Zhang Shun could not rebuild a new city to keep watch over Luoyang City.

However, although Zhang Shun could not build a big city, he might as well build a small city. In fact, there was originally a small city in the northwest corner of Luoyang City, called Jinyong City. This city is small but strong. After Luoyang City is lost, it is often recaptured with the help of Jinyong City defense.

Now this city has long been abandoned, and Luoyang City is no longer the Luoyang City of the past. Zhang Shun could not rely on the original foundation to build the city, so he simply started a new one and asked Han Lin and Gao Yizhi to find another place near Luoyang to build a military fortress.